From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 15 May 2001 11:20:02 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 15 May 2001 11:19:52 -0400 Received: from panic.ohr.gatech.edu ([130.207.47.194]:39372 "HELO havoc.gtf.org") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Tue, 15 May 2001 11:19:33 -0400 Message-ID: <3B014903.B16B650B@mandrakesoft.com> Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 11:19:31 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik Organization: MandrakeSoft X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.5-pre2 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Alan Cox , Neil Brown , "H. Peter Anvin" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , viro@math.psu.edu Subject: Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Tue, 15 May 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > For block devices that seems to work well. char devices are harder and I'd > > rather issue the occasional new major than have people registering automatic > > cabbage slicers as a tty or a disk because they cant get a device id. > > What are the valid cases that couldn't just register as a misc'ish > driver? The one that stands out is serial devices (you have hundreds of > them), but that's the same argument as a disk anyway. /dev/fbN, /dev/dspN, /dev/videoN, ... -- Jeff Garzik | Game called on account of naked chick Building 1024 | MandrakeSoft |